Laser technology has made tremendous advances in recent years, particularly in the area of diode and diode-pumped solid state sources. Flow cytometry has been a direct beneficiary of these advances, as these small, low-maintenance, inexpensive lasers with reasonable power outputs are integrated into flow cytometers. In this chapter we review the contribution and potential of solid-state lasers ...

A diode laser based in situ absorption spectrometer is presented for the simultaneous detection of CO (1560nm), water (813nm) and the gas temperature within the combustion chamber of a 600MW lignite-fired power-plant. A fractional absorption resolution better than 10 equivalent to a few hundred ppmV CO could be demonstrated with a 30 sec time response. ? 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS cod...

This article presents the electrical circuit, a description of design, and results measurements radiative watt–ampere time characteristics compact inexpensive emitters based on commercial laser diodes with wavelengths from 405 to 850 nm, which operate in picosecond (70–180 ps) nanosecond (0.69–1.2 ns) modes. The optical emitter includes master crystal oscillator microcontroller (frequencies 76 ...

Background: Numerous lasers are currently available for hair removal. Objective: To study the efficacy of a pulsed diode laser for removing unwanted hair. Patients and Methods: In this quasi-experimental clinical trial, 39 patients with unwanted hairs on chin referred to Novin-Didegan Laser Center in Tehran were treated with a diode laser system (Palomar, 810nm). Fluences ranging from 40 to 64 ...

High-power laser-diode arrays, which are made of stacks of individual or multistripe laser diodes, or in some cases vertical-cavity surfaceemitting lasers (VCSELs), can put out watts to kilowatts of optical power for uses such as laser pumping, industrial heating, illumination, or as the input for fiber-optic direct-diode laser devices for materials processing or for medicine. Laser diodes typi...

Nowadays, quasi-continuous wave diode lasers are used in a widespread variety of applications. Temperature effects in these lasers can strongly influence their performance. In this paper, the effects of temperature have been experimentally investigated on different features of a 60W-QCW diode laser. The obtained results indicate that the conversion efficiency and operation voltage of diode lase...

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III Novel submillimeter-size lenses have been fabricated in compound semiconductor substrates by mesa etching and heat treatment. These precision large-numerical-aperture microlenses are well suited for diode lasers and laser arrays in miniaturized systems. Alaser array has been efficiently coupled to an external cavity by a microlens array to achieve coherent phase locking. As part of a semico...

Currently available semiconductor lasers for spectroscopy in the near- and mid-infrared region based on direct band-to-band transitions as gallium-arsenide, indium-phosphide, antimonides and lead-salt containing compounds will be discussed together with the main features of different tunable diode-laser absorption spectrometers for trace gas analysis. Measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide ...